Abstract
•We assessed risk factors for recent abscesses among people who inject drugs (PWID)•Correlates included: injection frequency, stimulant/fentanyl use, neck injection•PWID cited injection behavior, stigma, and self-treatment as risk factors•Lifetime prevalence of abscesses was 65.5%, of which 67.5% occurred in past year•Indicated interventions include: drug checking, bias training, supervised injection
